Came across an almost spanking in an old film

I finally got around to see the Rock Hudson movie "Pretty Maids All In A Row". It's a movie that glorified the age of the miniskirt / mini dress and a causal acceptance of sex in a high school. It was a black comedy in its day, one that has become blacker as the years went by and certain things became much less acceptable, but it was still fun to watch.

One almost F/m scene caught my eye. A young female teacher unbuckled a 17 year old grade 12 student's belt, but didn't undo his jeans, at least not then. Instead she took a firm hold of the free end of his belt and used that to drag him off (the belt staying looped because the buckle wouldn't pass through the loops). In my eyes that would have been the perfect way to lead him to a spanking, but instead she puts him in a bathtub while soaking a stain out of his jeans.

Still, it was a nice almost spanking that I thought I'd share.

It should have been a spanking scene. HAHA

I'd venture that Vladimir Nabokov's literary themes (notably those dealing with underage sexuality) have become even less accepted by society than they were when he was writing about them in his novels... --C.K.

Now that would have been a hot spanking scene. Darn!!!!

I'm not so sure. "Lolita" was very shocking in its day (the original with Sue Lyon and James Mason) and its theme had to be disguised to a certain extent, not unlike some of Tennesee Williams' works did with homosexuality (basically, it was only alluded to). I think the next frontier of sexuality might well be more "mainstreaming" of sex with underaged juveniles, for better or worse and the more radical of the psychological/mental health "community" will assert that childhood sexual experiences with adults, absent coercion or outright force, isn't nearly as damaging as most of us proles think and we should adjust our criminal justice system to reflect that.

Also interesting, to me at least, was this was a prime example of a movie that cast him as a rampant heterosexual character before the much later revelation that he had AIDS and his secret life was revealed to the public (it was a supposedly a longtime "open" secret in Hollywood but it became apparent that he went to considerable effort to keep it quiet, understandably so). I never really had a clue; after all he co-starred with John Wayne in "Undefeated" and how do you get more macho than that?